Last week, a bipartisan commission of former state lawmakers finished working on and recommended a solution to a long-standing problem: Kansas’s terrible legislative pay scale. Currently our state legislature, which is officially supposed to meet…

TOPEKA — Saline County appraiser Sean Robertson started with positive elements of the Legislature’s proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution capping real estate valuation increases on residential, commercial and agriculture property at 4% annually in…

TOPEKA — Kansas budget director Adam Proffitt said Tuesday the state government was on track to meet revenue projections necessary to create a $2.6 billion ending balance in the current fiscal year and reinforce the…

TOPEKA — The Legislature’s perennial failure to invest in lowering local property taxes left Miami County with a budget dilemma this year. The sheriff’s office, competing with higher wages for law enforcement in the neighboring…

There’s an old cliche that says no one’s liberty is safe when the Legislature is in session.  Well, here in Kansas, we can go that one better.  Our state Legislature’s a threat to liberty, even…

Dear editor: As we work this summer to finalize the budget for 2024, the Allen County Commission continues to be mindful of the property tax burden being placed on our fellow citizens. To help ease…

TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education voted unanimously to recommend Gov. Laura Kelly and the 2024 Legislature embrace a four-year initiative raising state aid to special education by $86.6 million annually to bring…

TOPEKA — Collection of income and sales taxes by the state of Kansas in the just-completed fiscal year reached $10.16 billion to surpass the previous year’s revenue deposits by more than $400 million, officials said…

TOPEKA — Jay Schumacher was locked up at the Ellis County Jail on a charge of first-degree murder in the slaying of his wife, but under Kansas law could spend the couple’s assets while awaiting…

It’s kind of quiet, as these things go, but Kansas is suddenly in the middle of a state constitutional crisis.  After a grueling legislative session, Gov. Laura Kelly last week signed a school funding bill…